Presbyter
Saint Simeon was born on February 2, 1882, in the village of Lomazy, Belsk district, in the Sedlec province. His father died when Simeon was three years old, and his mother began to work for hire. Simeon served as a psalmist in a church in the Belsk district. In 1915, he moved to Central Russia and spent a year in the Nikol-Peshnosh Monastery. From 1917 to 1922, he served as a militiaman in Moscow.
In 1922, he was appointed as a psalmist to the church in the village of Dulovo, and in 1925, he was transferred to the church of the village of Orudyevo. In 1930, he was ordained as a deacon, and later as a priest at the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in the village of Yakot.
On January 18, 1938, he was arrested on charges of anti-Soviet agitation and imprisoned in Butyrka prison. On February 11, 1938, the NKVD troika sentenced him to death. He was executed on February 21, 1938, and buried in an unmarked grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
